“Anchored by the Light”

© 2012 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott

I saw this old anchor while looking for a spot to capture the sunrise and knew it was the perfect, ahem, anchor element for this capture.  You can see the forming ice on the river (this is December in Canada!)  The ice will soon go from shore to shore.  The color here is right out of the camera.  I used a combination of filters to get this single exposure shot; a ND1000 ten stop filter and a neutral grad (3 stop) for slightly more than half of the exposure on the sky (I handheld a square filter).

Technical info: Canon EOS 5D MKII, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L, Haida Pro II MC ND1000 filter, Cokin ND8 graduated filter Processed in Adobe Lightroom 4 and Photoshop CS5

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